TROX vs. MTX, KRO, MTRN, HBM, SLVM, SXT, MP, OR, ERO, and IOSP
Should you be buying Tronox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tronox include Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Materion (MTRN), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Sylvamo (SLVM), Sensient Technologies (SXT), MP Materials (MP), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Ero Copper (ERO), and Innospec (IOSP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Tronox (NYSE:TROX) and Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Tronox pays out -24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Minerals Technologies pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Tronox is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
73.4% of Tronox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Tronox shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tronox currently has a consensus price target of $14.86, indicating a potential downside of 13.32%. Minerals Technologies has a consensus price target of $68.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.99%. Given Minerals Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Minerals Technologies is more favorable than Tronox.
In the previous week, Tronox had 6 more articles in the media than Minerals Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Tronox and 3 mentions for Minerals Technologies. Minerals Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Tronox's score of 0.23 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Minerals Technologies has a net margin of 3.88% compared to Tronox's net margin of -11.09%. Minerals Technologies' return on equity of 10.26% beat Tronox's return on equity.
Minerals Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tronox received 29 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.29% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Tronox has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Minerals Technologies beats Tronox on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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